Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Course Overview
This course presents the essential differences between administrating Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and the Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 and 9. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks.
This hands-on course is intended to provide experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems administrators with practical experience in carrying out similar or related tasks they are currently managing but on a Solaris 10 system.
Skills Gained
The delegate will practice:
- Administer services with the Service Management Facility
- Control Log file rotation
- Create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager
- Create and manage ZFS file systems
- Manage Flash Archives for installation
- Install updates with the Live Upgrade feature
- Configure various security features
Who will the Course Benefit?
This
Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators course is aimed at IT staff who need to understand the essential differences in carrying out their current tasks in a Solaris 10 environment.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course the delegate should be able to administer services with the Service Management Facility, describe features of Multiterabyte UFS, manage patches with the Sun Update Connection Services, configure various security features, create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager, create and manage ZFS file systems, control Log file rotation, manage Flash Archives for
installation, install updates with the Live Upgrade feature and describe other differences between Solaris 10 and older Solaris versions.
Requirements
Recent experience administering Solaris 8 or Solaris 9. Experience or knowledge of managing disk partitions and UFS file systems, managing packages and patches from the command line, Jumpstart installation and basic management of disk volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
Follow-On Courses
- Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools
- Apache Web Server
- Oracle SQL
- Oracle Overview Seminar
NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: SERVICE MANAGEMENT FACILITY (SMF)
- Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
- Manage services with various SMF commands
Session 2: DISK AND FILE MANAGEMENT
- Identify changes to the format command
- Implement EFI disk labels
- Identify changes to the behaviour of the devfsadm command
- Identify new pseudo file systems
- Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
- Describe changes related to logging in UFS
- Display file activity with fsstat
- Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable for syslog
- Log file rotation
Session 3: SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER (SVM)
- Describe Solaris Volume Manager Software RAID concepts
- Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
- Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for a file system including root
- Backup a mirrored volume
- Build a RAID-5 volume
- Manage Hot Spares
Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: ZFS
- Basic Description
- Requirements
- Main Features
- The ZFS Tools
- Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
- Managing ZFS File Systems with zfs
- Installing a ZFS root File System
Session 5: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
- State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
- Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS
- Describe differences in Jumpstart Server configuration
- Describe WAN boot installation
- Describe how signed packages and patches are implemented
- Describe related options with pkgadd and patchadd
Session 6: SUN CONNECTION SERVICES AND PATCH MANAGEMENT
- Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services
- Manage patches with the Sun Update Manager application and the smpatch command
Session 7: MANAGING FLASH ARCHIVES
- Describe the Flash installation feature
- Create a Flash archive
- Use a Flash archive for installation
Session 8: USING LIVE UPGRADE
- Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
- Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
- Create an empty alternative boot environment for updating with a Flash Archive
- Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive
Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: USER MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY
- Manage users and groups with the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
- Manage users and groups with SMC commands
- Manage password generation
- Manage user logins for failed attempts
Session 10: NETWORKING SERVICES
- Describe differences in managing the DNS (server and client) and LDAP (client) Naming Services
- Describe the differences in the Network File System (NFS)
- Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4
- Describe changes to managing AutoFS
Session 11: MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES
- Identify changes in printing services
- Desktop Printer Management Tool
- Describe the differences in the coreadm command from Solaris 10
- Describe MPSS (Multiple Page Size Support)
- System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
- System Administration with Webmin
OPTIONAL TOPICS, DEPENDING ON TIME
Session 12: ZONES
- Basic Description
- Main Features and Benefits
- Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
- Creating Zones (zonecfg, zoneadm, zlogin)
- Accessing Zones
- Managing the Zone State
- Zone Migration
- Zone System Processes
Session 13: GRUB
- Booting from an INTEL System with GRUB
- Booting Procedures with GRUB
- GRUB Files
- Modifying the Boot Behaviour
